Kame
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A kame, or knob, is a glacial landform, an irregularly shaped hill or mound composed of sand, gravel and till that accumulates in a depression on a retreating glacier, and is then deposited on the lan
A kame near Kirriemuir, Scotland
A kame in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
A kame among the glacial drift on the terminal moraine of the Okanagan Lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet on the Waterville Plateau of the Columbia Plateau in Washington
Kame terraces in the eastern Pyrenees of France: Montfillà (left), above the Porta valley, Cerdagne; and Pla de l'Orri (right), above the Cabrils valley, Conflent
Drumlin
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A drumlin is an elongated hill in the shape of an inverted spoon or half-buried egg formed by glacial ice acting on underlying unconsolidated till or ground moraine. The name is derived from the Irish
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…similar to the glacier surface along which they formed, and can sometimes be found paired on opposite sides of a valley. Kames are sometimes compared to drumlins, but their formation is distinctively different. A drumlin is not originally shaped by meltwater, but by the ice itself and has a quite regular shape…
Drumlins around Horicon Marsh, Wisconsin, in an area with one of the highest concentration of drumlins in the world. The curved path of the Laurentide Ice Sheet is evident in the orientation of the various mounds.
Elongate and forested drumlins south of Puerto Williams, Chile. Flow direction here was at time of formation from west to east (left to right on picture).
Clew Bay in County Mayo, Ireland, is a vast field of semi-submerged drumlins, which are now islands.
Drumlin field in Western New York state, aligned with glacial flow